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Thebes Resurgent: Epaminondas and the Liberation of Messenia
In 369 BC, Thebes — not Athens, not Sparta — was the greatest power in Greece, and the architect of that rise was a general-philosopher named Epaminondas. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how he shattered Sparta's dominance at Leuctra, then did something unprecedented: he invaded the Peloponnese, freed the helots of Messenia, and built a new city called Messene as a permanent check on Spartan power. They trace the strategy behind his campaigns, the founding of Megalopolis as a rival to Sparta, and the short-lived Arcadian League. Through the words of Xenophon and Diodorus, they…
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